February 11, 2008
-- Students received progress reports to be signed by a parent and returned for points.
-- Don’t forget the binder check on Wednesday, February 13.
-- Part 1 of the Book Portfolio is due Friday, February 15.
I. Today we practiced creating a Works Cited entry (as practice for creating the book portfolio).
Creating a Works Cited Entry: This part is your self-starter.
Put these facts together into a Works Cited Entry for this book. Use the sheet I gave you (in your binder) for “MLA Style for Listing Sources,” or turn to page 761 in the purple Writing and Grammar book. You won’t need to use all of the information I’ve given you.
The name of the book is Dawn and Dusk. (When I typed the title of the book, I italicized it. When you write it by hand, you will underline it.) The author is Alice Mead. The publisher is Farrar. It was published in New York City. The year it was published was 2007. It has 152 pages. This book is a historical/multicultural novel about how Azad and his family must flee their home in Iran because of the war with Iraq.
Don’t forget to not indent the first line, but indent second and third lines if any.
Here is another example:
Sebestyen, Ouida. Words By Heart. New York: Farrar, 1968.
For sources from the Internet, basically follow the example given on your “MLA Style for Listing Sources.” If you're confused about how to organize the pieces of information, just include everything you think would be helpful in finding that site again, and recognizing who made it and who wrote the information you used.
II. We also read from Words By Heart.
SSR (Symbolic Story Representation)
As we read today, jot down ideas for how you could use pictures or objects to represent (symbolize) what you do as a reader (your moves), who the characters are, what the setting is, what the conflict is, what happens (plot), what themes (big ideas) come out in the story, what choices the author is making. You may write more on the back of this sheet if you’d like.
Today, especially notice what you do as a reader.
In three columns, students took notes on --
1. Page number
2. Moves, ideas, things to be represented
3. Objects or pictures I could use to represent/symbolize them.
A1 read from page 37 to page 47, paragraph 4
A2 read from page 47 to page 63, paragraph 4
A3 read from page 42 to page 47?
A4 read from page 42 to page 54, paragraph 3
